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Matthew 4:4
It would be great for most people if the world were to institute the Biblical Jubilee.
For the Jubilee of Leviticus 25:10 allowed all people every 50 years to be set at liberty from being hired servants (Leviticus 25:40), such as wage slaves today, and to return free from all debts to their own plots of land, which they could then work in support of themselves and their families.
This was such a wonderful idea, the world should seriously think about putting it into practice in our own time. For a future, world economic collapse (similar to, but much worse than, 2008's Great Recession) will be brought about by the continued, unsustainable debt loads of the world's banks (in the form of bad loans), and of the world's governments, corporations, and individuals. God knew that eternal, recycling debts (i.e. borrowing or printing new money to pay off old debts) can only result, in the long term, in widespread economic ruin, due to eventual huge defaults or rampant inflation.
Also, the Jubilee idea prevents what we are seeing today: the unbelievable concentration of wealth and land ownership by only a relatively few people when compared with the population of the planet. For example, it was recently claimed that about 60 of the richest people in the world today own more wealth than the 3.5 billion poorest people in the world. It is eternal debt, and the subsequent loss of land ownership, that cannot help but eventually result in wage slavery and inescapable poverty for 99% of the world's population. God knew this. And it cannot last.
Also, a good start to rectify the current, extreme situation would be to abolish all taxes such as income and sales taxes, which hurt the poor (not to mention the middle class) the most, and replace all taxes with a 10% yearly (and global) wealth tax on people with more than a million dollars in wealth. This wealth tax will have to be global, or else the wealthy will simply move their wealth to tax havens with no wealth tax. The money from the wealth tax can then be distributed to the world's poor in the form of sufficient food, clothing, housing, water supplies, farm animals, crop seeds, farm tools, fruit trees, and land for them and their children to be able to support themselves by their own work on their own lands (cf. Micah 4:4a).
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Note that the "2 days" of Hosea 6:2 don't have to be exactly 2,000 years. For 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalms 90:4 don't have to mean exactly 1,000 years. For God can round numbers down. For example, 1 Kings 7:23 in effect rounds 3.14 down to 3. For 1 Kings 7:23 isn't implying that pi is equal to exactly 3. All 1 Kings 7:23 is saying is that a brass basin 10 cubits in diameter had a circumference of 30 cubits, which could have simply been rounded down from a circumference of 31.4 cubits. Or the 10-cubit diameter could have been rounded up from 9.55 cubits, which would have resulted in a circumference of 30 cubits. Or neither the 10-cubit-diameter figure nor the 30-cubit-circumference figure was meant to be taken as an exact figure accurate to 1/100 of a cubit. For 1 Kings 7:23 isn't giving an exact, blueprint description of the basin, nor is it giving a geometry lesson. It is simply giving a general account of how big the basin was.
Similarly, 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalms 90:4 don't have to be giving an exact equation, but can be giving a general idea. Just as God can in effect round 3.14 down to 3, so he could round something like 1,140 down to 1,000. Or he could round something like 999 or 997 up to 1,000.
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